Thanks for your reply! That's cool that you worked there at a visitor's center. It's true, there's a lot of life that has sprung up there, and as someone who never saw it in the years following the eruption, it's hard to know what was old and what is new - maybe because so much of the devastation wasn't just from lava, which just covers the soil in a layer of rock, but from the landslide of mud and detritus that knocked out so many of the trees but didn't discourage new growth. It has a totally different feel to a place like Iceland, where eruptions from a hundred years ago look like they could have happened yesterday.
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